Scientifically speaking, what are the actual odds (1 in ?) that life came about by chance?
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Stewie_G
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I am brave or stupid one for answering this but it's just a simple guess. 1 in 2 chances. It did or it didn't.
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If you are an atheist, 1 in 1 - that is the only way it could have come about. If you are a theist, one in infinity - it was no chance, God did it.
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None. Life did not come about by "chance". Life came about as a chain of events, a series of cause and effect relationships. No "chance" was involved, no tornadoes in junkyards. Just a step-by-step process.
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According to Richard Dawkins, approximately one. Here's how he rationalizes it: Say you get to roll a die once. What is the probability that you get a four? 1/6, right? Okay Richard Dawkins, you say, you're being condescending. Now what if you had to roll this die for a week straight? What's the probability you're going to roll a four now? It's pretty much certain. Granted, the chances that life arose by chances are infinitesimally small. But there are billions of planets that have existed for billions of years. Dawkins concludes (and I have to agree) that life arising is practically inevitable when you take into consideration the time it's had.
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I like to refer to the Anthropic Principle. Basically, things are the way they are, because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to ask the question. There could of been a googol years that passed. With universes being created and fizzling out/contracting and being recreated. Galaxies creating stars, stars creating planets, etc etc. It could of taken that long, but it didn't matter. You have no sense of time when you don't exist. All that matters is that the right combination came together and brought us here.
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well scientifically 1/1.as life is existing now . as said before it is by a chain of events that made life possible. god does not exist so rule out that one . ( and if we say god exist who created he that created he ect ...)
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Depends on how you define "chance". If by that one believes in chance as the random sequencing of events than I don't believe humans could calculate the odds nor replicate. If one believes in a diety and all of creation came from and was fated by - than there is no such thing as "chance".
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Many others have answered far more eloquently than I could, so I will just point out that this question does no beling in the "evolution" category. Life "coming about" has absolutely nothing to do with evolution. While this may have been an honest error, I question the intent of the asker.
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